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Digital Developments in Event Marketing

Biznology

Event marketing has long been a staple in B-to-B, where the face-to-face conversation enabled by a trade show or corporate event plays a valuable role in launching or deepening a business relationship. This takes a lot of the randomness out of networking, and lets attendees use their time more efficiently.

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Six strategies behind the trend in B2B client conferences

Biznology

Kathleen Schaub, vice president of IDG’s CMO Advisory Service, reports that customer events are twice as common (at 48%) as participation in trade shows (27%) among tech marketers. What a great way to get your customer’s full attention, especially compared with a trade show, where you have to compete with zillions of others.

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The End of Marketing as We Know It: Overcoming Buyer Challenges with Interactive Smart Content

The ROI Guy

The past decade has seen an exciting and dramatic increase in new digital marketing channels including Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, search engines, webinars, virtual trade shows and more. For example, the typical B2B prospect receives an average of 20.3

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How to Calculate Social Marketing ROI

Paul Gillin

Much of the money that B2B marketers have poured into direct mail campaigns, trade show exhibitions and trade print advertising for the last 50 years has questionable returns. The VP of marketing communications at SAP was recently asked by B-to-B magazine how she is measuring ROI on marketing efforts. End sidebar.

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Digital Natives in Our Midst | Advice and Opinion

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Energy Efficiency. It is their older peers that I have to repeat that lesson too (no printing the actual network diagram, complete with FW locations and IP addresses on marketing brochures; no giving away product roadmaps at Trade Shows.). Research about the efficiencies created by different operating systems. Mainframes.

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Agile Marketing: How to Achieve Business Agility During Uncertain Times

B2B Digital Marketer

So, uh, that leads me to, and we’ve kind of hit on these a little bit, but I think we need to be a little bit more succinct because you know, what should, or what does a, B to B digital marketer need to be asking themselves today? And trade shows and things like that. Jim Ewel (14:38): Yeah. That’s important.

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Sirius Decisions Summit 2019 Takeaways

Ledger Bennett

Make sure you’re setting the foundation to build, grow and scale as efficiently as possible internally. So it sounds like internal efficiencies are a huge priority this year for many companies. Events and Trade Shows (+23%). Organizations that are aligned across their Revenue Engine achieve 19% faster growth.